Minnie Driver (Speechless) and Amandla Jahava (Rap Sh*t) have been cast as the leads in FX’s Peep Show, a half-hour comedy pilot written and produced by Atlanta and What We Do in the Shadows exec producer Stefani Robinson, who also serves as showrunner.
Yana Gorskaya (What We Do in the Shadows) has been tapped to direct. This marks Driver’s return to FX where she starred in The Riches, for which she received an Emmy and a Golden Globe nomination.
Inspired by the UK series, Peep Show follows the relationship between a long-suffering assistant (Jahava) and her boss (Driver), an emotionally unstable tech entrepreneur.
Robinson executive produces along with Dianne McGunigle (Atlanta), Jesse Armstrong (Succession, Four Lions), Sam Bain (Peep Show [UK], Four Lions), and Hannah Mackay and Ben Farrell for Objective Fiction (Feel Good, Peep Show [UK]), part of All3Media’s Objective Media Group.
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